Supply Chain Systems Analyst

Company Overview

Why Choose Us

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food beverage and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice restaurant delivery and carryout food processing grocery and retail and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin paper molded fiber aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories 250 brands and over 39000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Role Overview

The Analyst Demand Planning Systems Configuration configures and maintains demand planning system logic so forecast behavior is predictable explainable and aligned with approved planning standards. This role ensures that demand logic lives in the system not in spreadsheets overrides or planner workarounds.

The role owns the operation administration and continuous improvement of automated planning models that generate baseline demand plans. The role is accountable for ensuring baseline plans are generated consistently reliably and in accordance with approved planning standards. The role does not own business decisions planner overrides consensus forecasts or final approved plans.

Core Responsibilities

Demand Planning System Configuration

• Configure and maintain demand planning system logic including:
• Forecast models and parameters
• Demand hierarchies and aggregation rules
• Segmentation and exception behavior
• Baseline plan generation logic / Model tuning parameters and thresholds
• Ensure forecast logic aligns with approved planning intent and governance.
• Own maintenance of the planning models that generate baseline demand plans and ensure outputs remain stable explainable and aligned with business requirements.

Baseline Plan Operations

• Execute recurring baseline plan generation cycles within approved planning systems.
• Monitor automated planning model performance and investigate unexpected planning outcomes.
• Maintain planning model parameters and system settings that influence baseline plan generation.
• Collaborate with Demand Planners to gather feedback on model effectiveness and identify opportunities for tuning and continuous improvement.
• Ensure baseline plans are available complete and ready for planner review and exception management activities.

Validation & Test Ownership

• Develop and maintain demanddomain test scripts and task flows associated with owned configuration.
• Validate forecast behavior through structured scenarios before and after changes.
• Support regression testing to protect existing forecast behavior.
• Validate that planning model changes produce expected baseline planning outcomes before deployment.

Diagnosis & Support

• Diagnose demand system issues by tracing:
• Configuration logic
• Planning data inputs (not integration pipelines)
• System calculation outcomes
• Partner with Adoption & Testing analysts to explain system outcomes to planners.
• Analyze planning KPIs exception trends and planner feedback to identify opportunities to improve baseline planning performance.

Documentation

• Document demand configuration intent assumptions and known sensitivities.
• Maintain clear explanatory artifacts for why the system behaves as it does.
• Document planning model assumptions tuning rationale performance measures and known limitations.

Out of Scope (Explicitly Not This Role)

• Owning approving or being held accountable for the consensus forecast or final demand plan.
• Demand planning policy or methodology definition.
• Data integrations mass data changes or data corrections.
• Development of independent analytical models outside approved planning platforms.
• Demand planning execution planner overrides customer engagement or consensus decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Analytics Information Systems or a related field.
• Experience supporting or configuring demand planning or forecasting systems.
• Understanding of forecast models hierarchies and demand segmentation concepts.
• Experience administering or supporting automated planning forecasting replenishment or optimization systems preferred.
• Experience in SIOP or integrated planning environments preferred.

Core Competencies

• Demand planning systems configuration
• Forecast model understanding (system context)
• Planning model administration
• Baseline plan generation
• Continuous improvement and model tuning
• Systems testing and validation
• Rootcause analysis of planning behavior
• Clear technical documentation
• Crossfunctional communication

Success Measures

• Forecast outputs behave consistently across planning cycles.
• Planners understand and trust demand system behavior.
• Reduced why did the system do this escalations.
• Faster turnaround on demand system configuration changes.
• Decreased reliance on manual forecast overrides.
• Baseline plans are generated on time and with minimal intervention.
• Planning model performance improves through ongoing tuning and KPI-driven optimization.
• Increased planner productivity through exception-based planning and reduced manual plan creation.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $65000-$90000 bonus benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. At Novolex it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

The benefits for this role include 401(k) plan with company match comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance flexible spending and health savings accounts paid vacation and sick days paid parental leave paid holidays and wellness program.

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Company Benefits

What Youll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union) and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices including but not limited to selection hiring promotion transfer and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age race color national origin sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity religion handicap or disability genetics citizenship status service member or veteran status or any other category protected by federal state or local law. Any individual who because of his or her disability needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Companys application process should contact .

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